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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When Amazon thinks "sub" means "submissive" rather than "subscriber"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

https://i.imgur.com/3EQnww7.jpeg

Mmhmmm.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

There's an easy solution for that.

Cancel it. Stop buying things from Amazon. Stop giving that awful company your money.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any streaming service that tries to combine ads+sub is just as greedy as cable TV and I can't support that kind of shitty business practice. Ads free or sub no ads. Cancelled each service as they rolled out that trash. Currently only subbed to Criterion and thinking of resubbing to Shudder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It's easy though, just pay an extra 36 bucks per year, bringing your total prime sub cost to 176 bucks per year, very reasonable!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This deal keeps getting worse all the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pray they don't alter it any further

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Or just fucking cancel it.

This 100% discretionary and somehow these clown companies are able to act as if this is like rent or food.

At some point plebs need to own their pathetic consumption patterns. Nothing will change otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just cancelled my prime today. I don't watch the video, just use it for delivery

It said "But you've save €247 with your prime account since the start!"

Over the last six years I've paid about €270 for the prime subscription

Fuck off Amazon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Only reason I still have prime is simple - diapers. I save enough on them alone to justify it. But once that's done (another year-ish), I don't think it will be worth it anymore.

And yet, I still don't use prime video. It's just not a good experience, and obviously getting worse. And as I have kids, the management of what I'm ok with them seeing is way easier on JF than prime video.